February 2011
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“Faux television newscasts produced by the son of a woman who was in a coma when...”
– Crystal Bartolovich writes about Goodbye, Lenin in a much nicer way than Žižek does, while, more or less, making the same point. This is, by the way, what bummers look like. From “History after the End of History: Critical Counterfactualism and Revolution,” 2006.
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“I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have...”
– How could I sleep at night if I thought Thatcher’s words were not persistently heeded in the corridors of power and Glenn Beck’s studio?
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“LET US, HOWEVER, RETURN to the war in Vietnam and the response that it has...”
– Oh fuck. Here comes Noam Chomsky, time traveling from 1967, to tell us all what’s wrong with the DC establishment media. That’s right: s/Vietnam/Iraq/g etc. Brought to you by NYRB:...
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“Neoliberal theorists are, however, profoundly suspicious of democracy....”
– David Harvey basically explains contemporary US foreign policy perfectly in 2003’s Brief History of Neoliberalism.
